Easily one of the most familiar phrases in doo-wop history --
“Dom-dom-dom-dom.  Domby-dooby. Dom-dom-dom-dom-dom” --
opened the first hit of The Dell-Vikings: one of the very
few racially-integrated ‘50s groups.  The original quintet got together
in 1955 at the Pittsburgh airport Air Force base.  Having nothing
better to do, they harmonized their way through a local talent
contest and then two more in New York and Bermuda.
So they could hear how they sounded, Pittsburgh DJ
Barry Kaye recorded the group singing nine songs in his basement. 
One was an unpolished version of “Come Go With Me.”

At that time, the group consisted of Norman Wright (lead),
Kripp Johnson (first tenor), Don Jackson (second tenor),
Clarence Quick (bass) and the only white member, David Larchey (baritone). 
Soon after, Joe Auerbach, who owned the local Fee Bee label, set up a
makeshift studio in Pittsburgh’s Sheraton Hotel.  There, backed by a band
of Air Force buddies, The Dell-Vikings recorded the song that
would make them stars.  When the sales of “Come Go With Me” on
Fee Bee swamped the label’s modest resources, it was re-released
to Dot Records in February 1957 where it soared to #4 on
the Hit Parade, selling more than a million copies.
“Whispering Bells,” originally issued on Fee Bee in 1956, became
the Dell-Vikings’ second Top 10 hit with Dot in July 1957.

For The Dell-Vikings, there were no further hits but in 1958
the group appeared alongside The Diamonds and Fats Domino in the
low-budget movie The Big Beat.  It was The Dell-Vikings’ last hurrah,
although the group’s “Come Go With Me” went on to turn up decades
later on the soundtracks of American Graffiti, Stand By Me,
American Hot Wax and other films.